Is This The Dream World Series?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss a few compelling things about this year's World Series matchup and wonder if this round of Yankees v. Dodgers is a 'Dream World Series'. Plus, they rank the starting pitchers that are likely to appear in the series and assess the overall strength of each team's rotation options. Beyond the World Series, they also discuss Britt's story about White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf considering a potential sale of the team, and the upgrades that might be on tap for a Cubs team seeking a return to the playoffs in 2025.
Rundown
1:14 Is This the 'Dream World Series'?
5:32 The Best World Series Money Can Buy?
13:03 What Compels You Most About Yankees-Dodgers?
23:21 Lining Up the Starters Around Expected Bullpen Games
28:28 Rankings the Starting Pitchers We'll See In This Series
42:56 Jerry Reinsdorf is Open to Selling the White Sox
51:12 Offseason Plans for the Cubs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels Tuesday, October 22nd, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, |
| 0:19.9 | Britt Jarosarous, Britt Jli, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.4 | We answer a question that is kicking around. |
| 0:25.3 | Is this the Dream World series this year between the Yankees and Dodgers? |
| 0:31.8 | The way this is lining up, we have Star Power, we have both teams that led their respective |
| 0:37.1 | leagues and wins matching up. |
| 0:39.0 | We've got everything you could possibly ask for, two-storied franchises meeting or the 12th time in the fall classic. |
| 0:46.7 | That's kind of a surprising number as well. |
| 0:49.4 | So we'll dig into a lot of aspects of this series. |
| 0:52.1 | We're going to rank the starting pitchers that we expect to see in the series. |
| 0:56.1 | Talk about what compels us most about this matchup. |
| 0:58.6 | And we've got a little bit of non-playoff news to discuss the White Sox may be up for sale, |
| 1:04.7 | according to a story Britt had on the athletic recently. |
| 1:07.0 | So we'll dig into that a little bit later on in the hour. |
| 1:10.2 | We're going to focus mostly on the World Series today. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm starting at the top. |
| 1:16.1 | Is this the Dream World Series? |
| 1:19.5 | Jason Stark had this in his story on Monday. |
| 1:22.9 | He wrote, how often does each league's highest win total make the World Series? |
| 1:26.6 | In the wildcard era, excluding 2020, this will be the fourth time it's happened. |
| 1:32.1 | So that goes back to 1995. |
| 1:34.4 | It was the first time it happened Cleveland, Atlanta that year. |
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